Outing report- 27th July 2014 Kenneth Stainbank NR

Photos by Hazel van Rooyen

Attendees: Stanley & Asothie Gengan; Margaret Jones, Hazel Nevin, Herbie & Jeanette Osborne; Irma Smook, Bob & Hazel van Rooyen, Ron & Elaine Whitham; Barrie Willis & Sue Hansbury. (13 attendees).

Barrie proudly sports
his thank you present from the club.
His 'Trogons Braai Master' apron.

White-eared Barbets & Black-bellied Starlings

African Dusky Flycatcher

Hamerkop

Turtles in the dam

African Crowned Eagle

African Darter & Reed Cormorant

Birds recorded: Black-collared Barbet, White-eared Barbet, Little Bee-eater, Southern Boubou, Dark-Capped Bulbul, Grey-headed Bush-Shrike, Yellow-fronted Canary, White-breasted Cormorant, Reed Cormorant, Black Crake, African Darter, Tambourine Dove, Red-eyed Dove, Fork-tailed Drongo, African Crowned Eagle, African Fish Eagle, African Dusky Flycatcher, Natal Spurfowl, Egyptian Goose, Little Grebe, Yellow-bellied Greenbul,  Sombre Greenbul, Hadeda Ibis, Hammerkop, Crowned Hornbill, Brown-hooded Kingfisher, Bronze Mannikin, Black-headed Oriole, Black-backed Puffback, Red capped Robin-Chat, Cape Robin-Chat, Black-bellied Starling, Collared Sunbird, Amethyst Sunbird, Olive Sunbird, Grey Sunbird, Swamphen Purple, African Palm Swift, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Southern Black Tit, Purple-crested Turaco, Thick-billed Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver, Village Weaver, Cape White-eye, Golden-tailed Woodpecker. (46 species) (list supplied by Ron Whitham).

Outing report - 20th July 2014 Harding Dam & Ingeli Forest

Attendees: Doug Butcher, Stan & Val Culley; Ina de Koker, Stanley & Asothie Gengan; Bobby & Hazel van Rooyen. (8 attendees)

Bar-throated Apalis, Ingeli Forest
(Photo Hazel van Rooyen)

Locust species, Ingeli Forest
(Photo Hazel van Rooyen)

Birds recorded: South African Shelduck, Egyptian Goose, Little Grebe, Red-knobbed Coot, Cape Shoveler, Common Moorhen, Yellow-billed Duck, Red-billed Teal, Black-headed Heron, Spur-winged Goose, Cape Crow, Pied Crow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Black-headed Oriole, Dark-capped Bulbul, Hadeda Ibis, Plain-backed Pipit, Cape Turtle-Dove, African Stonechat, Neddicky, Common Waxbill, Rufous-naped Lark, Brown-throated Martin, Cape Wagtail, Levaillant’s Cisticola, Southern Bald Ibis, Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Olive Sunbird, White-bellied Sunbird, Cape Grassbird, Bar-throated Apalis, Sombre Greenbul, Cape White-eye, Southern Black Tit, African Crowned Eagle, Grey Crowned Crane, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Golden-breasted Bunting, Swee Waxbill, Cape Batis, Chorister Robin-Chat, Tambourine Dove, Red-necked Spurfowl, Cattle Egret, White-starred Robin. (45 species).